has been exploring her passion for movement professionally for almost 30 years. She offers dynamic, detailed attention to breath, sensation, emotions, and creative process. With curiosity and enjoyment, Mary expresses a unique articulate embodiment of Continuum’s transformational effects, and supports group environments to enhance creative and sensual movement exploration.
Mary has worked with post-surgical rehabilitation, chronic illness, injury, trauma, and aging concerns. Besides offering classes in her Manhattan studio, Mary has taught in New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New York State, Rhode Island, and Texas. From 2002-2011 she served on the Board of Directors of the International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association (ISMETA), serving as president of the board from 2005-2009. She continues working for ISMETA as their Government Relations Representative to the Federation of Therapeutic Massage, Bodywork, and Somatic Practice Organizations.
From 1981-1997 Mary choreographed and taught dance in Minnesota, Iowa, India, and New York and received grant support for this work. She holds a B.A. in Dance from St. Olaf College, formally studied dance for over 30 years, and still performs occasionally in New York City. See this review from Dance Online of one of her works.
“Mary’s inspired teaching is coupled with a great understanding of the human spirit.” – Emilie Conrad
“Mary, you have such sensitivity about you, such beautiful demonstrations, allowing your students to be wherever they are with their movement, just holding the space to explore, suspending judgment, allowing whatever needs to unfold to unfold, embodying the work in mind, body and spirit so eloquently...communicating all this through your field and every so often expanding sensation through your hands and touch.” – Greta Enzer, Actress
“With so little in our culture that educates and supports inner listening, Continuum is like a matriarchal presence that holds me while I descend into the cave of my wild self, giving permission to slow down and listen. Mary Abrams is a precious gem. Her willingness to offer, reflect, share and delve is extraordinary in a teacher. Under her guidance, Continuum is a doorway into our subtle and sublime human growth potential, and more if you're ready for it. She sure is.” – Lenna Kitterman, Cranial Sacral Therapist, Nyack, NY
“I started working with Mary after a heart attack I had on Valentines Day, 2000, one month prior to my 50th birthday. She helped me deal with the trauma/post-trauma and turn the experience into one of the most positive and growth full experiences of my life. She is a gifted healer and expansive teacher. Her classes allow me to explore new areas of my body/mind every week... they are environments for discovery.” – David Belmont, Composer, Musician, Political Activist, New York, NY
I have been a student of Mary's since 1998 after I took my first workshop with Emilie Conrad. At that time, I was still an actor/singer/personal trainer/beginning yoga teacher. Luckily, I fell in love with Continuum Movement, and was very pleased to find classes in NYC that I could attend. Mary's teaching style was new to me. I was amazed at the unusual shapes of attention she tolerated from her students, and how she encouraged us to share about our experience, which was unheard of in most dance and yoga classes. Mary's teaching is both supportive and spacious. She offers instruction without being strongly attached to how we interpret it. She is there to assist if needed, and she also models tending to her own needs, which is an example that has influenced my own teaching/tending style. Her teaching and the studio she has created in which to teach provide a weekly saving grace in my life. - Elizabeth DeLaBarre, CST, SMT, RYT, Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, New York, NY
Mary also creates dynamic, colorful artwork. Her original drawings are a direct expression of the deep and wild terrain of her movement explorations, visions, and dreamings. To see her art work check out Art Exchange. To get more information on purchasing post cards, original drawings, or commissioning art work, you may also contact Mary at Moving Body Resources.
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